ABSTRACT
If Parc de la Villette (Chapter 15) was the French prototype for the urban park of the twenty-first century, then the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord (Duisburg North Landscape Park) can be seen as the German prototype (Weilacher 2008: 103) – even if conventional criteria might suggest that it is neither landscape nor a park. Designed by (Peter) Latz + Partner (Anneliese), the project retained and adapted the majority of the industrial structures, landforms and naturalized vegetation on the former steelworks site. It was a radical progression from Richard Haag’s design for the 7.7-hectare Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington – a project that retained much of the industrial plant but set it against sculpted grassy landforms. 1
